#inspiration

"The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you."

"Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you."

"They may try to stop you by their words and deeds, but like air you will rise above it all. You are unstoppable"

"It does not manifest so that you can believe in it. You believe in it so that it can manifest."

"Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day."

"But while the urban tribe helps us survive, it does not help us thrive. The urban tribe may bring us soup when we are sick, but it is the people we hardly know - those who never make it into our tribe - who will swiftly and dramatically change our lives for the better."

"I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories."

"Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library."

"In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with."

"Believe that life is taking you down a wonderful path!"

"The philosophies of men surround us. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness, and pain. You know what is right and what is wrong, and no disguise, however appealing, can change that. Be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow."

"Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love."

"Every comforting word is a command from a man of action...While every word of command is commotion from a man of just words..."

"Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man."

"Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him."

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

"Each store will fulfil some of your needs, but no individual store can meet all of your needs. Learning how to set realistic expectations now and in future relationships requires you to examine each of the existing stores to see what they can offer."

"How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting."

"Shut up and write."

"People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don’t have it, you cant give it."